It is anticipated that the use of tissue oxygen monitoring to measure brain tissue oxygen and deltoid muscle oxygen will provide more precise information about focal brain ischemia and systemic hypoperfusion than current techniques and measures such as blood pressure, heart rate and intracranial pressure. Understanding the relationship between tissue oxygen tension collected from the brain and deltoid muscle in critically injured patients could lead to a broader understanding of the important metabolic and cellular events that occur following severe injury and the changes induced by therapeutic interventions. Furthermore, the use of interventions designed to improve tissue hypoxia, as measured by low brain or muscle tissue oxygen, may improve mortality or neurological recovery after systemic trauma or head trauma compared to current approaches that do not involve tissue metabolic monitoring.

All physiological data will be downloaded automatically and continuously from the bedside monitor, ventilator, and oxygen monitors via a study-dedicated computer and customized software (Aristein Bioinformatics, Palo Alto, CA).

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years and older

Genders Eligible for Study:

Both

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

No

Sampling Method:

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Inclusion Criteria:

Age 18 years and older

Intubated and assisted mechanical ventilation

Traumatic brain injury requiring advanced neuromonitoring

Abbreviated injury scale 3 or more in torso. abdomen, or extremities

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Age 18 years and older

Intubated and assisted mechanical ventilation

Traumatic brain injury requiring advanced neuromonitoring

Abbreviated injury scale 3 or more in torso. abdomen, or extremities

Exclusion Criteria:

Age less than 18 years

Pregnancy

Contacts and Locations

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00328341

Locations

United States, California

University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital